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Neoliberalism came wrapped in an ideology of freedom and choice
Mutual aid: Resources and examples
Scholar Jessica Gordon Nembhard says in her book, Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice, that mutual aid societies were a cornerstone of African-American communities. A notable one is the Free African Society, formed in Philadelphia a decade after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. By 1830, more than a hundred mutual aid societies existed in Philadelphia alone. So drawing from existing knowledge instead of reinventing the wheel, this article is a guide to starting or increasing the capacity of, a mutual aid network. Start small and start anywhere with a core team. It’s OK to not have a grand plan to save the world when starting a mutual aid network. In fact, it’s better if you don’t—mutual aid is a complex, emergent process where each member’s abilities and ideas are respected. It also operates on a local scale. Not knowing all the answers—and being able to admit that—is a good start. From Aaron Fernando writing in Shareable. [more inside]
Death of the hiker
Lost on a dangerous trail, Leyton Cassidy’s thoughts take her down a dark path. The last picture I took of myself that day was a selfie by a wooden sign. I have on a goofy smile and my favorite baseball hat. I had stopped to eat a peach. Later, this picture would become terrifying.
A browser is born
Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project - "The Ladybird browser came to life on July 4th [2022]"* and now today Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative via Simon Willison: "Andreas Kling's Ladybird is a really exciting project: a from-scratch implementation of a web browser, initially built as part of the Serenity OS project, which aims to provide a completely independent, open source and fully standards compliant browser." (previously)
Reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven
Nature’s ghosts: how reviving medieval farming offers wildlife an unexpected haven. Agriculture is often seen as the enemy of biodiversity, but in an excerpt from her new book Sophie Yeo explains how techniques from the middle ages allow plants and animals to flourish.
There is only one city
[Image] In a chost on cohost Belarius links us to a high resolution scan he produced of a cross section of Kowloon Walled City from a 1997 book produced by japanese researchers.
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Beach Reading to Defeat the Patriarchy
“In publishing, the term used to refer to the blockbuster books published in summer... Over time, the term ‘beach read’ began to describe a certain type of book... Many times these books can be classified as ‘women’s fiction’: romance, domestic psychological thrillers, or contemporary novels featuring female characters. The term is dripping with sexist assumptions about what women read and the books women authors write. It’s a logical leap in a patriarchal society: books by women, about women, are more likely to be considered ‘light reading.’” – from Book Riot’s What Makes a Book a Beach Read? Accordingly, here are some small press books by women, about women, including Become Ungovernable, Feminism against Cisness, On Strike Against God, and 25 more. [more inside]
Aboriginal ritual passed down over 12,000 years, cave find shows
Two slightly burnt, fat-covered sticks...... discovered inside an Australian cave are evidence of a healing ritual that was passed down unchanged by more than 500 generations of Indigenous people over the last 12,000 years, according to new research.
And She Has an Adorable Cat!
Gab Smolders is a gaming YouTuber from the Netherlands. She makes very entertaining playthroughs of a large variety of games. He cat, BB, occasionally makes an appearance. [more inside]
That's called cultural appropriation
Vincent Horn described the a recent episode of Buddhist Geeks as a departure for the podcast. He explained he would be monologuing to explain the Jhāna Drama. [more inside]
This was Mike Mew ... he was the glamorous dentist.
Mike Mew is the head of the closest thing dentistry has to a cult. This was not true when I was nine but it is now. Mike and his father, John, believe that in humanity there is currently an epidemic of ugliness. They promise that you can build yourself a new and strong and masculine jawline, basically just by swallowing different. They call this mewing. His New York Times profile calls him a “celebrity to [the] incels,” but girls like him too. He has obtained adoration on both 4chan and TikTok. Mewing is a big thing, a real phenomenon. Mike Mew also has, at time of writing, an ongoing misconduct hearing for, among other things, making a six-year-old boy wear head, neck, and inside-mouth appliances that allegedly led to the child being in so much pain he had “seizure-like episodes.” I was Mike Mew’s patient from ages nine to fifteen, or thereabouts. This all started in 2005.
don't have energy for this
Amazon Web Services is reportedly making a deal for electricity from a nuclear power plant [quartz] [more inside]
Trump v United States
The Supreme Court has found that: "Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts." CNN NYT WaPo
A one-person blimp
The Aéroplume is a one-person blimp, minimum-sized, that enables you to fly by flapping wings. €70 for 30 minutes. You can fly it in a hangar, or in a cave. Tom Scott takes flight.
Beachcombers Discover Rare, DeepSea Anglerfish Washed Up on Oregon Coast
Beachcombers Discover Rare, Deep-Sea Anglerfish Washed Up on Oregon Coast. (Smithsonian Magazine.) Most humans will never see a Pacific footballfish, as the creatures live at depths of 2000 to 3300 feet below the ocean’s surface.
Flushed with nuisance and trespass
When MegaCorps collide, the UKSC must decide. Judgment today finds [11m of elderly gent reading a script] that the Manchester Ship Canal is not obliged to accept "trespass and nuisance" in the discharge of untreated sewage from United Utilities simply on the grounds that it has no standing in law. [more inside]
Time to generate the polyhedrons
Would the humans come for this tremendous thing they had lost?
The ship waited. The cars waited. The starfish and sea cucumbers waited, but in the meantime, they explored the smooth surfaces of the ship and the cars. They crawled over the charred flanks and squeezed into the seams of doors and trunks and hoods. An octopus took refuge in the underbelly of a Bentley. The metal and fiberglass and plastic, the wires and buttons and glass belonged to the sea creatures now. from Felicity Ace Falls Over & Sinks, Tuesday, 9am by Shena McAuliffe [Speculative Nonfiction] [more inside]
“You get me?”
It’s in this moment that Welch’s perfect onomatopoeia eclipses whomever she may be. Her interior life, her desires, her fears, her being — it all fades away because she’s produced such a rich and accurate sound effect for a specific kind of fellatio.
Hailey Welch is no longer. Hawk Tuah Girl is born, and the people love Hawk Tuah Girl. From Hawk Tuah Girl, explained by straight dudes [Vox] [more inside]
History of Urology
The British Association of Urological Surgeons has a Virtual Museum. You can navigate through the timeline or visit rooms in the museum, including the toilets. Exhibits include instruments and diseases and procedures. [more inside]